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EXERCISES IN CONNECTION 

WITH THE UNVEILING 

OF 

THE DAVID AMES TABLET 

MAY 18, 1917 




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A GIFT TO THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY 

HISTORICAL SOCIETY FROM 

THE GREAT GRAND-DAUGHTER OF 

DAVID AMES 

MRS. OSCAR B. IRELAND 




THE HOUSE BUILT BY 

DAVID AMES, JR. 

LOCATED ON AMES HILL, MAPLE STREET 

AND NOW OCCUPIED BY 

MISS MARY AMES 

AND 

MRS. OSCAR B. IRELAND 




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Descendants of 

DAVID AMES 

Representing Four Generations 



Miss Mary Ames 
Mrs. O. B. Ireland 
Gordon Ireland 
Frederick Ireland 
Elizabeth Ireland 




SPOT WHERE THE 
BOULDER WITH TABLET 
WILL BE LOCATED 
CORNER MAPLE AND MILL STREETS 



UNVEILING OF THE DAVID AMES TABLET 

FRIDAY MAY 18, 1017 at 2:30 o'clock P. M. 
Mahogany Room Auditorium 



Program 



Introductory Remarks 

By W. F. Adams, President of the Society. 

President of the Day 
Charles W. Bosworth. 

Invocation 

By Rev. A. P. Reccord, Minister of Church of Unity. 

Address of Welcome and thanks to the Donor on behalf of the Citizens of 
Springfield 

Hon. Frank E. Stacy, Mayor. 

Presentation of the Tablet to the Connecticut Valley Historical Society 

By Gordon Ireland of New York City, of the Fourth generation in lineal descent from 
David Ames. 

Unveiling of the Tablet 

By Frederick Ireland of the Fifth generation in lineal descent from David Ames. 

Acceptance of the Tablet in behalf of the Connecticut Valley Historical 
Society 

By Charles Goodrich Whiting. 

The first paper maker in the Connecticut Valley and the art of paper 
making in the early days and some comparisons of later days 

By George B. Holbrook. 



Ifuuorarg (Eummtttrc 

A. C. Hastings, Holyoke 
W. N. Caldwell 
Clifton A. Crocker 
Horace A. Moses 
Edward P. Bagg, Holyoke 



Gkmmtttrc an Jfumtatton 

Frederick Harris Miss Mary Ames 

Alfred Leeds Mrs. Samuel Bowles 

Sherman Bowles Mrs. Solomon B. Griffin 



(ftmsttsttttr* an Oration 

Stanhope E. Blunt 
Andrew J. Flanagan 
Mrs. 0. B. Ireland 
Charles E. Ladd 



(Hamxmtttz an ilaljugaug Staom, AtuMturium 

Henry C. Haile 

J. Stewart Kirkham 

Herbert R. Wolcott 



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Robert 0. Morris 

Rev. J. H. Lockwood 

0. S. Greenleaf 

Richard Hooker 

Charles H. Barrows 

Mrs. Alfred Leeds 

Mrs. Edward S. Brewer, Longmeadow 

Mrs. A. A. Packard 

Mrs. D. P. Cole 

Charles A. Frazer 

E. A. Hall 

T. F. Dwight 

A. H. Watson 

Dr. Appleton Morgan, New York 

Nehemiah Hawkins, New York 



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